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| === Ancient weights and measures === | |||
| Many of the '''ancient weights and measures''' used throughout history are variations on older systems. Different civilisations made adjustments to serve their own purposes however similarities between systems may be found. The accuracy and agreement of definitions improved over time. | |||
| Measurements that are used to define property are often used to impose taxes or tithes resulting in there being one measure for ordinary transactions and another for royal or religious transactions. Though throughout history people and their various representatives in guilds and lobbys, have been very scrupulous in defending the value of their possessions, governments and religions are even more scrupulous about getting their cut. | |||
| The first measures were the lengths of the ditches that bordered and defined the fields. Since people tend to pace off a distance differently, knotted cords were used to measure their sides and cord stretchers became the first surveyors. | |||
| === Ancient cultures sharing similar systems of measurement === | |||
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| === Later developments of the original systems === | |||
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| === Unrelated systems === | |||
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| ===See also=== | |||
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| == References == | |||
| * Renfrew, Colin and Bahn, Paul {{Section:Book reference after author|Year=2004|Title=Archaeology|Publisher=Thames & Hudson|ID=ISBN 0500 284415}} | |||
| * George Bass{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=2004|Title=A History of Seafaring|Publisher=Walker and Company|ID=ISBN 08027-0-3909}} | |||
| * William H McNeil and Jean W Sedlar, {{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1962|Title=The Ancient Near East|Publisher=OUP|ID=ISBN }} | |||
| * Andrew George, {{Section:Book reference after author|Year=2000|Title=The Epic of Gillgamesh|Publisher=Penguin|ID=ISBN No14-044721-0}} | |||
| * James B. Pritchard, {{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1968|Title=The Ancient Near East|Publisher=OUP|ID=ISBN }} | |||
| * Shaika Haya Ali Al Khalifa and Michael Rice, {{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1986|Title=Bahrain through the Ages|Publisher=KPI|ID=ISBN 071030112-x}} | |||
| * Dr. Muhammed Abdul Nayeem, {{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1990|Title=Prehistory and Protohistory of the Arabian Peninsula|Publisher=Hyderabad|ID=ISBN }} | |||
| * Marie-Loise Thomsen, {{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1984|Title=Mesopotamia 10 The Sumerian Language |Publisher=Academic Press|ID=ISBN 87-500-3654-8}} | |||
| * Michael Roaf{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1990|Title=Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East|Publisher=Equinox|ID=ISBN 0-8160-2218-6}} | |||
| * Chang{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1979|Title=The Archaeology of Ancient China|Publisher=YUP|ID=ISBN }} | |||
| * Nicholas Awde and Putros Samano{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1986|Title=The Arabic Alphabet|Publisher=Billing & Sons Ltd.|ID=ISBN 0863560350}} | |||
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| * Somers Clarke and R. Englebach{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1990|Title=Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture|Publisher=Dover|ID=ISBN 0486264858}} | |||
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| * Nelson Glueck{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1959|Title=Rivers in the Desert|Publisher=HUC|ID=ISBN}} | |||
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| * Herodotus{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1952|Title=The History|Publisher=William Brown|ID=}} | |||
| * Silvia Luraghi{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1990|Title=Old Hittite Sentence Structure|Publisher=Routledge|ID=ISBN 0415047358}} | |||
| * Michael Grant{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1987|Title=The Rise of the Greeks |Publisher=Charles Scribners Sons|ID=}} | |||
| * Alex Patterson{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1991|Title=A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest|Publisher=Johnson Books|ID=ISBN 1555660916}} | |||
| * Lucas N. H. Bunt, Phillip S.Jones, Jack D. Bedient {{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1976|Title=The Historical Roots of Elementary Mathematics|Publisher=Dover|ID=ISBN 0486255638}} | |||
| * H Arthur Klein{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1976|Title=The World of Measurements |Publisher=Simon and Schuster|ID=}} | |||
| * R. A. Cordingley{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1951|Title=Norman's Parrallel of the Orders of Architecture|Publisher=Alex Trianti Ltd|ID=}} | |||
| * Jean Gimpel{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1976|Title=The Medieval Machine|Publisher=Holt Rheinhart & Winston|ID=ISBN 0030146364}} | |||
| * Lionel Casson{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1991|Title=The Ancient Mariners|Publisher=PUP|ID=ISBN 06910147879}} | |||
| * Francis H. Moffitt{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1987|Title=Surveying|Publisher=Harper & Row|ID=ISBN 0060445548}} | |||
| * Brian M. Fagan{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1995|Title=Ancient North America | |||
| |Publisher=Thames & Hudson|ID=ISBN 0500050759}} | |||
| * H Johnathan Riley Smith{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1990|Title=The Atlas of the Crusades | |||
| |Publisher=Swanston|ID=ISBN 0723003610}} | |||
| * Elizabeth Hallam{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1986|Title=The Plantagenet Chronicles|Publisher=Weidenfield & Nicholson|ID=ISBN 1555840183}} | |||
| * H.W. Koch{{Section:Book reference after author|Year=1978|Title=Medieval Warfare|Publisher=Prentice Hall|ID=ISBN 0135736005}} | |||
| * ''Measure for Measure'', Richard Young and Thomas Glover, ISBN 1-889796-00-X. | |||
| * ''Masse und Gewichte'', Marvin A. Powell | |||
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